Revenge Quotes

“Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Let me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

“When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible.

Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.

Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“Those we murder with our mouths often live longest”
― Anonymous, Njal's Saga

“There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.”
― Victoria Malin Gregory

“Her smile is her revenge.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“I’m clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I’m hurting now, he’ll hurt ten times worse. That’s the only thing that keeps me going.”
― Jenny Han, Fire with Fire

“For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she delivered the sandwiches for her own sanity. Something would crumble inside of her if she ever walked by a homeless person and pretended not to notice. Or simply didn't care. In a way, she believed that homeless people were treated as Indians had always been treated. Badly. The homeless were like an Indian tribe, nomadic and powerless, just filled with more than any tribe's share of crazy people and cripples. So, a homeless Indian belonged to two tribes, and was the lowest form of life in the city. The powerful white men of Seattle had created a law that made it illegal to sit on the sidewalk. That ordinance was crazier and much more evil than any homeless person. Sometimes Marie wondered if she worked so hard at anything only because she hated powerful white men. She wondered if she went to college and received good grades just because she was looking for revenge.”
― Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer

“They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy.”
― Srinivas Shenoy

“You're going to get a present from me so you'll always remember our agreement."
She gave him a crooked smile and climbed on to the bed and knelt between his legs. Bjurman had no idea what she intended to do, but he felt a sudden terror.
Then he saw the needle in her hand.
He flopped his head back and forth and tried to twist his body away until she put a knee on his crotch and pressed down in warning.
"Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.”
― Stieg Larsson translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

“We speak in hushed voices, so as not to wake our memories, the things we've done, the things we'll continue to do, for fear of breaking the cycle, how fierce we were when we were young, when we were unafraid of coming unhinged.”
― Daniel Grayson

“As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Mute's Soliloquy: a Memoir

“I don't get jealous, I get even.”
― Hafsa Shah

“Sometimes the righteous path doesn’t take you where you need to go!”
― Shawn Wickersheim, The Penitent Assassin

“...the dead, being wiser than the living, know freedom is always better than revenge.”
― Michael G. Williams, Wrapped In White: Thirteen Tales of Spectres, Ghosts, and Spirits

“Quotes from BEGINNINGS: Where A Life Begins..........

Life did not improve for Maria; it just became slowly less unbearable

Alia’s mother was more than twice her age. Not yet old enough to be expected to die of old age but now no longer a woman with a future; except that which can be lived through her children and theirs.

Her head told her that there was no justice but her heart was unconvinced.

She was relieved that her soul no longer weighed as heavily as it had before, or maybe she had learned how to bear its weight a little more skillfully.

At first she thought it was her son's spirit that spoke to her. But he was gone; and slowly she realized that the voice was coming from within her but was not her own. It was stronger and braver and, perhaps, even crueller, than she could be. It could only be coming from within her womb. It had to be the voice of her unborn child.

"Maybe there is really no justice in the world; just survival and revenge," she said.”
― Gary Heilbronn

“Work is the undoing of nature.”
― Paul Majkut, Oulanem

“Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge?
Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration.”
― Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

“Humans might have so many roles in life.... yet revenge is not one of them”
― Sameh Elsayed

“There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.”
― Bhaskaryya Deka, The Unwanted Shadow

“He could pass off the inferior bottles on tables seven and four. Table seven knew nothing of wine, sending back a bottle of Riesling as "corked" because it had bits of cork in it, the imbeciles. Table four had gulped down a very special old pale brandy as though it was common wood alcohol, which was probably what they had been drinking because they had said that his brandy lacked bite. They deserved inferior burgundy. The bottles that had been stored too close to the stove might have enough bite by now for table four. A wine waiter's revenge may be long in coming, but it arrives in the end.”
― Kerry Greenwood, Death by Water

“Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Los milicianos corrieron por las calles mientras los ciudadanos se escondían, desesperados, entre casas viejas, en los pozos, en las despensas de sus vecinos. Cerraban las puertas los padres de familia y asían con fuerza sus mejores cuchillos. Las mujeres abrazaban a sus hijos, las sirvientas aseguraban las ventanas. Algunos, los más temerosos, se acurrucaban en el camastro con la débil seguridad de las velas encendidas.
Esa noche, los lobos tomaron Barcelona, y en ese ferviente caos de guerra y muerte, Fortuna desenvainó su espada. Había entendido el mensaje. «Gryal está aquí», decían los lobos. «Ha vuelto la primavera», decía su aullido.”
― Jordi Balaguer, El retorno de Gryal

“Some men prefer the heady tang of revenge to the comfort of cash.”
― Michael H. Fox

“The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.”
― George Orwell

“onething i have learnt is that parents should treat their kids in a way they would love in return, because growing up litteraly makes you a kid again. you will get it too.”
― mohlalefi j motsima

“I'm waiting for the piece of shit to crawl out from under his rock. If it is who she said it is, then I'll be there to kick the throne from beneath his filthy, lying, murdering backside.” - Nik Driver”
― A.Z.Green

“The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, following their murky rules.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership